Queer And Trans African Mobilities: Migration, Asylum And Diaspora - 9780755638987

Recent years have seen increased scholarly and media interest in the movement of LGBTIQ persons, particularly those seeking protection in Europe and North America. While this has helped focus attention on the plight of individuals facing persecution, it has also reinvigorated racist tropes about sexual or gender rights in the Global South. In the case of Africa, the existence of anti-LGBTIQ laws and the prevalence of hetero-patriarchal discourses are regularly cited as evidence of the continent's inescapable savagery. Colonial notions of an uncivilised continent in need of salvation have been repackaged and repurposed for the twenty-first century, with LGBTIQ migrants serving as the ultimate case in point--

• | Author: B Camminga|John Marnell
• | Publisher: Zed Books
• | Publication Date: Jul 14, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 264 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Political Science
• | ISBN-10: 0755638980
• | ISBN-13: 9780755638987